STATISTICS 


OF    THE 


Class    of  184.0, 


FROM   1840  TO   1870, 


WITH  NOTICES  OF  THEIR  MEETINGS  HELD  AT 


YALE  COLLEGE, 


JULY  25,  i860;    JULY  25,  1866;    and  JULY  20,   1870. 


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NEW    HAVEN  : 

PRESS    OF   TUTTLE,    MOREHOUSE    &    TAYLOR. 

187I. 


STATISTICS 


Class    of  1840, 


FROM   1840  TO    1870, 


WITH  NOTICES  OF  THEIR  MEETINGS  HELD  AT 


YALE  COLLEGE, 


JULY  25,   i860;    JULY  25,   1866;    and  JULY  20,   1870. 


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NEW    HAVEN  : 

PRESS    OF    TUTTLE,    MOREHOUSE    &    TAYLOR. 

1871. 


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PREFACE 

PUBLISHED  WITH  THE   STATISTICS  IN   1850. 


Agreeably  to  a  vote  of  the  Class  on  a  former  occasion, 
a  meeting  was  held  at  the  Tontine  Hotel,  in  New  Haven, 
on  the  evening-  of  the  13th  of  August,  and  again  on  the 
night  of  the  14th.  It  had  been  hoped  and  expected  that 
the  general  interest  of  the  members  of  the  Class  in  each 
other,  coupled  with  the  interest  which  all  alumni  of  ''  Old 
Yale  "  might  be  supposed  to  feel,  in  being  present  at  the 
anniversary  which  would  complete  the  third  half  century 
since  the  founding  of  the  College,  would  bring  together 
on  this  occasion  a  large  number  of  the  Class  of  1840. 
This  hope,  however,  was  disappointed,  the  following 
named  persons  only  being  present : — Alley,  Booth, 
Bruyn,  Curtis,  Dexter,  Doubleday,  Edwards,  Eg- 
GLESTON,  Fitch,  T.  E.  Foster,  Hart,  G.  H.  Hollister, 
J.  C.  Hollister,  Houghton,  Ingersoll,  James,  Knapp, 
Lawrence,  Leavitt,  D.  P.  Noyes,  Parsons,  Perrin, 
Rankin,  Richards,  Thacher,  and  Wright. 

The  meeting  of  the  few  who  were  present  was,  how- 
ever, as  it  could  not  but  be,  extremely  interesting.  The 
minds  of  all  were  carried  back  with  vivid  recollection  to 
the  scenes  and  days  of  college  life,  and  as  we  were  made 
acquainted  with  each  other's  joys  and  sorrows  and  suc- 
cesses a  new  tie  of  interest  was  woven  between  us. 

A  tinge  of  sadness  was  indeed  imparted  to  our  meeting, 
as  we  listened  to  the  records  which  told  the  early  death  of 
several  whose  companionship  had  been  our  joy  in  former 
years,  and  who  gave  abundant  promise  of  distinction  and 
usefulness.  In  the  name  of  the  Class  we  tendered  the 
expression  of  heart-felt  sympathy  to  their  surviving  rela- 
tives. 


The  absence  of  some  was  partially  supplied  by  letters 
from  them,  which  went  far  to  increase  the  interest  of  our 
meeting,  and  to  bring  them  before  us,  at  least  as  they 
were  in  days  gone  by. 

It  would  be  difficult  to  describe  our  meeting  in  other 
than  this  general  way.  Our  classmates  who  were  not 
there  will  readily  imagine  its  more  particular  aspects, 
and  its  more  peculiar  scenes.  We  have  thought  it  would 
be  a  matter  of  interest  to  them  to  know  who  were  present, 
and  to  all  of  us  to  preserve  some  outlines,  at  least,  of  the 
history  of  the  Class  thus  far,  and  it  was  accordingly  de- 
termined to  publish  the  present  sketch  of  our  late  meeting. 

Our  next  assembly  is  to  take  place  in  i860;  and,  breth- 
ren and  classmates,  if  our  lives  are  spared,  let  us  then  be 
present  to  take  each  other  by  the  hand.  Death  has  al- 
ready thinned  our  ranks.  AsHBURNER,  Babcock,  BeaS- 
LEY,  Bristol,  Colclough,  Colton,  Dwight,  Hitch- 
cock, Kelley,  Proctor,  Ruggles,  Smith,  Waite  : 
these  are  already  taken  from  among  living  men  !  Another 
ten  years  will  doubtless  remove  many  others.  Let  those 
who  then  survive,  spare  no  pains  to  greet  each  other  at 
our  next  appointed  convocation,  and  if  any  of  us  may 
not  be  there,  because  removed  from  earthly  scenes,  let 
our  common  virtues  and  our  common  faith  ensure  us  all 
a  meeting  in  that  world  where  "there  shall  be  no  more 
death." 

N.  H.  E. 


THE    MEETING 


OF  THE  CLASS  OF   1840,  TWENTY  YEARS  AFTER  ITS 
GRADUATION. 


In  accordance  with  a  vote  passed  at  the  meeting  in 
1850,  the  Class  convened  at  the  Tontine  Hotel,  on  the 
evening  of  Wednesday,  July  25th,  i860.  This  meeting 
was  happily  preceded  by  an  informal  reunion,  on  the 
previous  evening,  at  the  house  of  our  honored  classmate, 
Charles  R.  Ingersoll,  Esq.  Twenty  years,  aided  by 
the  general  adoption  of  a  manly  style  of  beard,  had 
wrought  wondrous  changes  in  countenances,  so  that  our 
efforts  at  mutual  recognition  and  recollection  were  both 
painful  and  amusing.  It  was  plain,  however,  that  no 
change  had  passed  upon  the  generous  and  cordial  spirit 
of  the  Class  of  1840.  This,  in  every  case,  we  could  re- 
cognize, in  the  grasp  of  the  hand,  and  the  tone  of  the 
voice,  even  though  the  lines  of  the  face  were  as  bewilder- 
ing, for  the  moment,  as  a  diagram  in  conic  sections,  on 
the  recitation  blackboard,  in  the  olden  times.  This  little 
party  was  unexpectedly  enlivened  by  the  introduction  of 
three  little  girls,  about  twelve  years  of  age,  the  daughters 
of  three  of  our  classmates.  Miss  Ingersoll,  Miss  Shoe- 
maker, and  Miss  Burnam.  The  children  received  a  most 
cordial  greeting,  and  added  much  to  the  pleasure  of  the 
evening. 

This  little  circumstance  suggested  to  several  of  us  the 
idea  of  connecting  with  the  celebration  of  our  twenty- 
fifth  anniversary  a  similar  informal  party,  at  which  the 
wives  and  children  of  the  Class  should  be  present,  so  far 
as  practicable  and  convenient. 

At  this  meeting  Curtis  F.  Burnam,  our  orator  on 
Class  Day,  was  requested  to  be  our  spokesman  at  the 
Alumni  meeting. 


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It  will  be  remembered  that  at  the  meeting  of  1850, 
there  were  present  but  twent3^-six  members  of  the  Class, 
viz:  Alley,  Booth,  Bruyn,  Curtls,  Dexter,  Double- 
day,  Edwards,  Eggleston,  Fitch,  T.  E.  Foster,  Hart, 

G.  H.  HOLLLSTER,   J.  C.  HOLLISTER,    HOUGHTON,    InGER- 

SOLL,  James,  Knapp,  Lawrence,  Leavitt,  D.  P.  Noyes, 
Parsons,  Perrin,  Rankin,  Richards,  Thacher,  and 
Wright.  Of  this  number,  eighteen  were  present  in  i860, 
while  three,  viz:  T.  E.  FOSTER,  Knapp,  and  Wright, 
have  passed  to  a  *'  better  country,"  thus  verifying  the 
remark  in  the  report  of  that  meeting,  "  Another  ten  years 
will  doubtless  remove  many  others."  Seven  of  the  Class, 
not  then  present,  have  also  passed  away  since  that  time. 
We  add,  with  sadness,  these  names  to  the  list  of  the  de- 
parted:  Grout,  Noyes,  Lamb,  Miller,  Pelton,  Wil- 
liam Perkins,  and  VVitmer. 

During  the  first  ten  years  after  our  graduation,  thirteen 
of  our  one  hundred  names  were  numbered  with  the  dead. 
During  the  last  ten  years  eleven  more  were  added  to  the 
list.  We  give  a  catalogue  of  all  who  have  died,  in  the 
order  of  their  decease  : 

Ambrose  N.  Hitchcock,      .        -        -  1840 

Henry  M.  Proctor,  _        _        _  1841 

John  B.  Dwight,  _        _        .        _  1843 

Peter  R.  Beasley,    _        -        -        _  1844 

John  S.  Kelley,   -----  1844 

James  Smith,      -----  1846, 

William  E.  Ashburner,      _        _        -  1847, 

James  S.  Babcock,     -        _        -        _  1847 

George  H.  Colton,      -        -        -        -  1847 

Bagenal  Colclough,        -        -        -  1848 

Charles  J.  Ruggles,    -        -        -        -  1849 

George  C.  Waite,    -        -        -        -  1849 

George  G.  Steere,      _        _        -        -  1849 

Simeon  C.  Bristol,  -        -        -        -  1850 

Thomas  E.  Foster,       -        -        -        -  185 1 

David  Lamb,       _        -        -        -        _  1852 

Edward  Wright,  -----  1852 


Cale  Pelton,         _        -  _        _        _        1853. 

William  Perkins,     .  _        _        -            1854. 
Oscar  T.  Noyes,  -----        1854. 

Joseph  M.  Grout,     _  .        -        -            1855. 

.  Theodore  B.  Witmer,  -        -        _        1856. 

Charles  J.  Miller,  -  _        -        -            1859. 

Jared  O.  Knapp,           _  _        _        _        i860. 

Many  pleasant  memories,  and  many  sad  regrets,  mingle 
as  we  read  this  catalogue  of  the  early  dead.  As  we  came 
together,  the  constant  mention  of  the  departed,  involun- 
tarily called  out  by  inquiries,  sometimes  in  the  midst  of 
the  hilarities  of  our  pleasant  meeting,  spread  a  sombre 
light  over  the  whole  scene,  and  brought  into  conjunction, 
in  a  manner  very  unusual,  thoughts  of  this  life  and 
thoughts  of  eternity,  the  memories  of  the  happy  past  and 
the  anticipations  of  the  mysterious  future. 

It  will  be  seen  that  seventy-six  who  graduated  with  the 
Class  are  still  living.  Of  this  number  forty-one  were  pres- 
ent at  the  meeting  of  i860,  viz:  BuRNAM,  J.  C.  HOLLIS- 
ter,  Hoyt,  Goodwin,  Noyes,  James,  Dexter,  J.  Few 
Smith,   Edwards,   Douglass,   Lawrence,   Eggleston, 

WOODBRIDGE,    NORRIS,    IgLEHART,    InGERSOLL,   McCaLL, 

Day,  Childs,  Brinsmade,  Long,  G.  H.  Hollister, 
Marsh,  Gregory,  Fitch,  Curtis,  Richards,  Shoe- 
maker, DOUBLEDAY,  RaNKIN,   HuNT,  PeRRIN,  ThACHER, 

Houghton,  Hamelin,  Dodge,  Leavitt,  Bronson,  Al- 
ley, Thompson,  Gulliver.  Seymour,  who  left  the 
Class,  Sophomore  3^ear,  and  afterwards  graduated  at  Trin- 
ity College,  was  also  present  by  invitation.  It  will  of 
course  be  impossible  to  reproduce  upon  paper  the  scenes 
of  the  meeting  itself.  It  continued  from  8  P.  M.  until  the 
dawn  of  the  morning  had  begun  to  spread  over  the  streets 
of  our  university  town,  reminding  us,  as  we  wended  our 
way  to  our  lodgings,  of  the  peculiar  appearance  of  things, 
seen  seldom  enough  since,  at  that  early  hour  when  we 
used  to  grope  sleepily  to  morning  prayers.  This  can  be 
said,  however,  and  ought  to  be  said,  that  without  any 
design  or  wish  on  the  part  of  any  to  make  it  so,  it  was  a 


peculiarly  earnest  and  thoughtful  meeting.  BuRNAM, 
who  acted  as  Chairman,  gave  the  key-note  in  his  opening 
address,  when,  after  reciting  the  usual  incidents  of  his 
history,  both  grave  and  gay,  he  rose  the  second  time  and 
added,  that  he  could  not  do  justice  to  his  narrative  or  to 
his  own  feelings  without  saying,  "  I  am  a  different  man 
from  what  you  knew  me  in  College."  Circumstances 
related  by  many  of  the  Class,  the  earnest  Christian  feel- 
ing incidentally  expressed  by  many,  and  especially  the 
circumstantial  accounts,  received  from  several  sources,  of 
the  recent  death  of  that  noble  Christian  man,  Jared  O. 
Knapp,  contributed  to  deepen  the  delightful  impression 
of  the  opening  address.  There  was  nothing  sanctimoni- 
ous or  studied;  but  in  the  frank  simplicity  which  charac- 
terized the  meeting,  the  feelings  of  the  heart  were  allowed 
to  bubble  up  as  they  would.  No  one  who  listened,  could 
have  failed  to  receive  the  impression  that  the  Class  was 
made  up  of  earnest  men,  who  were  living  for  a  purpose, 
and  who,  that  purpose  accomplished,  were  anticipating  a 
life  of  wider  activities  and  purer  joys  hereafter. 

Classmates! — We  are  to  celebrate  our  quarter  century 
anniversary  five  years  hence.  Will  you  not  all  be  there, 
.or  if  you  fall  by  the  way,  will  you  not  leave  a  record  of 
noble  deeds — of  a  life  made  sublime — over  which  your 
Classmates  shall  then  linger  with  delight  and  honorable 
pride? 

J.  p.  G. 


THE    MEETING 


OF  THE  CLASS  OF   1840,  TWENTY-SIX  YEARS  AFTER 
ITS  GRADUATION. 


The  meeting  commemorative  of  the  twenty-fifth  anni- 
versary of  the  graduation  of  the  Class,  was  purposely 
postponed  to  the  succeeding  year,  on  account  of  the  re- 
cent close  of  the  war,  and  the  confused  state  of  the  times, 
not  promising  well  for  a  large  gathering.  The  meeting 
in  1866  was  quite  well  attended,  and  was  a  thoroughly 
pleasant  reunion.  The  regular  Class-supper  was  held  at 
the  Tontine  Hotel,  presided  over  by  Gen.  Lewis  Parsons. 
The  facts  there  elicited  in  respect  to  the  history  and  con- 
dition of  the  Class  have  all  been  embodied  in  the  statistics 
now  published,  which  bring  up  the  Class-record  to  the 
latest  possible  date.  There  were  present  at  this  meeting 
the  following  members:  Brinsmade,  Dexter,  Edwards, 
Eggleston,  Fitch,  Goodwin,  Gulliver,  G.  H.  Hol- 
lister,  j.  c.  hollister,  hoppin,  liunt,  hubbard, 
Ingersoll,  Jesup,  Long,  Lawrence,  Leavitt,  Noyes, 
Parsons,  Perrin,  Rankin,  Richards,  Tiffany  and 
Roderick   Terry. 


THE    MEETING 


OF  THE  CLASS  OF   1840,  THIRTY   YEARS  AFTER  ITS 
GRADUATION. 


In  June,  1870,  the  following  note  was  addressed  to  every 
member  of  the  Class  of  '40,  whose  residence,  or  probable 
residence,  was  known  : 

CLASS  OF  1840. 

New  Haven,  June  i,  1870. 
Dear  Sir  : 

We  need  hardly  remind  you  that  the  present 
year  is  the  thirtieth  anniversary  of  our  graduation,  and 
we  know  that  you  will  concur  with  us  in  thinking  that 
the  year  should  be-specially  noticed,  and  celebrated  by  a 
large  Class  gathering.  Never,  probably,  shall  we  be  bet- 
ter able  to  come  together  as  a  Class  in  a  friendly  circle, 
since  our  numbers  still  remain  unusually  full.  We,  there- 
fore, would  entreat  you  to  make  an  effort  to  be  with  us 
this  year,  and  without  formality,  to  enjoy  the  sight  of 
each  others  faces  once  more.  Those  of  us  who  live  in 
New  Haven,  promise  to  do  what  we  can  to  render  your 
visit  a  pleasant  one,  and  for  the  sake  of  old  memories  and 
friendships,  we  would  earnestly  request  that  you  will  res- 
pond to  this  notice  by  being  present  in  New^  Haven  the 
day  before  Commencement,  which  comes  this  year  upon 
the  2ist  of  July. 

L.  W.  Fitch, 
John  C.  Hollister, 
James  M.  Hoppin, 
Chas.  R.  Ingersoll. 


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In  answer  to  this  call  the  following  members  of  the 
Class  came  together  on  the  evening  of  the  20th  of  July, 
1870,  at  the  house  of  J.  M.  Hoppin,  corner  of  Sachem 
and  Mansfield  Sts.,  New  Haven : 

Theodore  H.  Benedict,  Henry  Booth,  William 
B.  Brinsmade,  Curtis  F.  Burnam,  William  B.  Cur- 
tis, Giles  H.  Deshon,  Henry  M.  Dexter,  Jonathan 
Edwards,  Nathaniel  H.  Eggleston,  Lucius  W. 
Fitch,  Samuel  Gregory,  John  P.  Gulliver,  James 
P.  Hart,  John  H.  Head,  John  C.  Hollister,  James 
M.  Hoppin,  William  A.  Houghton,  Charles  R.  Inger- 
SOLL,  Horace  James,  James  R.  Jesup,  Chauncey  P. 
JuDD,  Amos  E.  Lav^rence,  Loring  B.  Marsh,  Orin 
F.  Otis,  Edward  E.  Rankin,  George  Thacher,  Wil- 
liam H.  Tiffany. 

The  night  was  spent  in  friendly  conversation.  It  was 
good  once  more  to  look  on  the  manly,  brotherly  faces  of 
such  men  as  Booth  and  Burnam.  The  absent  living  and 
the  absent  dead  were  none  of  them  forgotten.  Those 
who  have  known  and  have  loved  each  other  as  boys  can 
never  grow  old  in  each  others  regard. 

"Though  nothing  can  bring  back  the  hour 
Of  splendor  in  the  grass,  of  glory  in  the  flower  ; 
We  will  grieve  not,  rather  find 
Strength  in  what  remains  behind  ; 
In  the  primal  sympathy 
Which  having  been  must  ever  be  ; 
In  the  soothing  thoughts  that  spring 
Out  of  human  suffering  ; 
In  the  faith  that  looks  through  death. 
In  years  that  bring  the  philosophic  mind." 


STATISTICS 

OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1840. 


Levi  Abbott,  Wilton,  N.  H.  Born  May  26,  18 18.  In 
1843  was  a  lawyer  in  Nashville,  N.  H.  ;  took  his  A.  M. 
in  1844,  and  in  1848  was  teaching  school  in  Alexandria, 
Va.  Married,  and  taught  school  in  Newark,  New  Jersey. 
Is  now  residing  with  his  wife  in  HoUis,  N.  H.,  where  he 
carries  on  a  farm.     He  has  no  children. 

*J0HN  B.  Alley,  Boston,  Mass.  Born  April  25,  1821. 
Took  his  A.  M.  in  course,  and  M.  D.  at  Harvard  Univer- 
sity ;  studied  medicine  two  years  in  Paris ;  was  a  prac- 
ticing Physician  in  Boston,  Mass.  Not  married.  Died 
in  1862,  in  Boston,  Mass.  He  was  much  esteemed,  and 
his  loss  is  felt  by  the  poor. 

'^Basilius  Argyras,  Epirus,  Greece.  Born  April  15, 
1 8 16.  Soon  after  graduating,  returned  to  Greece,  and 
was  engaged  in  some  revolutionary  movements  there ; 
returned  to  America  in  1842,  and  entered  into  business  in 
Boston,  first  as  a  clerk  in  a  wholesale  leather  establish- 
ment, and  afterwards  on  his  own  account.  Was  some- 
what successful  in  business.  In  1849  ^^  sailed  for  Califor- 
nia, but  was  wrecked  in  the  Straits  of  Magellan.  He 
however  reached  San  Francisco,  where  he  was  in  1861. 
He  was  never  married.  He  died  in  1866.  He  always 
spoke  with  delight  of  Yale  College,  and  kept  up  his  affec- 
tion for  the  Class  of  1840. 

^William  E.  Ashburner,  Philadelphia,  Penn.  Born 
March  22,  1815.  Took  his  A.  M.  in  course;  was  in  the 
book  business,  for  a  time,  in  Philadelphia,  and  then  be- 
came a  teacher.     He  died  in  Philadelphia,  in  1847. 


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Garwood  H.  Atwood,  Woodbury,  Conn.  Born  De- 
cember 6,  1818.  Studied  medicine  at  Yale,  and  is  a  prac- 
titioner in  Woodbury,  Conn.  Is  married.  He  has  be- 
come an  active  member  of  the  church,  as  well  as  a  promi- 
nent man  in  his  profession.     He  has  several  children. 

Edward  M.  Avery,  New  Haven.  Born  March  25, 
1 8 19.  Studied  law  and  opened  an  office  in  Wooster,  Ohio. 
In  1844  he  moved  to  St.  Louis,  in  circumstances  of  great 
adversity  ;  he  however  soon  became  the  head  of  the  St. 
Louis  Academy,  and  became  Superintendent  of  the  city 
schools.  Is  now  Principal  of  Webster  College,  at  Web- 
ster Station,  on  the  Pacific  Railroad,  near  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Is  married,  but  has  no  children.  He  is  much  respected 
as  a  teacher  and  a  citizen. 

■^James  S.  Babcock,  Coventry,  Conn.  Born  Novem- 
ber 17,  181 5.  Took  his  A.  M.  in  1844;  spent  some  time 
at  the  South.  He  died  calmly  and  contentedly,  in  1847,  ^^ 
Coventry,  Conn.  He  left  unpublished  manuscript  poems 
in  the  hands  of  his  classmates,  Messrs.  D.  P.  Noyes  and 
Colton ;  but  on  the  decease  of  the  latter,  they  were 
handed  over  to  his  classmate  Goodwin,  under  whose 
superintendence  they  were  published  by  Mr.  Babcock's 
sister,  with  a  biography.  In  the  estimation  of  his  friends, 
and  also  of  more  impartial  readers,  his  poems  possess 
much  real  merit. 

*Peter  R.  Beasley,  Brunswick  County,  Va.  Born 
1 8 16.  Moved  to  Huntsville,  Ala.,  and  became  a  planter. 
He  died  in  1844,  of  congestive  fever.     Not  married. 

Christopher  J.  Beirne,  Union,  Monroe  County,  Va. 
Born  July  9,  18 19.  Is  a  lawyer  in  Virginia,  and  has  rep- 
resented the  County  of  Monroe  in  the  State  Legislature. 

Theodore  H.  Benedict,  New  York  City.  Born 
March  13,  1821.  Took  his  A.  M.  in  1844.  Is  now  residing 
upon  his  farm,  in  Tarrytown,  N.  Y.  Has  been  a  member 
of  the  Senate  of  the  State  of  New  York.     Not  married. 


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Henry  Booth,  Roxbury,  Conn. .  Born  August  19,  1818. 
Taught  school  one  year  in  Wellsboro,  Penn.  Studied 
law  in  Litchfield  and  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  commenced 
the  practice  in  Towanda,  Bradford  County,  Penn.,  where 
he  resided  until  the  spring  of  1856,  when  he  removed  to 
Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,  and  took  charge  of  the  Law  Depart- 
ment of  the  State  and  National  Law  School.  In  June, 
1858,  he  left  the  School,  and  engaged  in  the  practice  of 
the  law  in  Poughkeepsie.  In  July,  1859,  ^^  removed  to 
Chicago,  111.,  and  is  now  at  the  head  of  the  Law  Depart- 
ment in  the  University  of  Chicago.  He  was  the  Deputy 
Attorney-General  for  Bradford  County,  Penn.  Married 
Miss  Ellen  Morris,  of  Wellsboro,  Tioga  Co.,  Penn.,  and 
has  six  children,  three  daughters  and  three  sons;  the  old- 
est of  the  sons  is  now  in  the  Chicago  University.  He 
has  been  elected  a  Circuit  Judge  for  six  years. 

William  B.  Brinsmade,  Washington,  Conn.  Born 
May  10,  1819.  Is  a  Civil  Engineer,  and  has  been  em- 
ployed upon  most  of  the  recently  constructed  railroads 
in  New  England.  In  1856  was  made  Superintendent  of 
the  Connecticut  River  Railroad.  In  1850  married  Miss 
Chapin,  of  Springfield,  Mass.,  and  has  three  children.  Is 
now  residing  at  Springfield,  Mass.  He  has  resigned  his 
connection  with  the  Conn.  River  R.  R.  on  account  of  ill 
health.     His  eldest  son  is  a  student  in  Harvard  College. 

^Simeon  C.  Bristol,  Rochester,  N.  Y.  Born  April 
24,  1818.  Went  to  Milwaukie,  where  he  studied  law  with 
W.  P.  Lynde,  Esq.  In  1843  he  removed  to  Beaver  Dam, 
Dodge  County,  Wisconsin,  where  he  commenced  the 
practice  of  his  profession,  and  in  1845  represented  that 
county  in  the  Legislature.  He  married  Miss  Ordway,  of 
Wisconsin,  and  had  one  child.  In  1849  went  to  California, 
where  he  died  in  February,  1850,  of  chronic  diarrhea. 

William  A.  Bronson,  New  Haven,  Conn.  Born  June 
4,  1817.  Studied  medicine  and  took  the  degree  of  M.  D. 
at  Yale  ;  entered  upon  his  profession  in  Westchester  Co., 
N.  Y.,  from  thence  removing  to  New  York  City,  where 


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he  is  now  a  Dentist.  He  has  the  reputation  of  being  one 
of  the  most  successful  Dentists  in  the  city,  and  has  made 
some  important  improvements  in  dental  instruments.  In 
1844  he  married  Miss  Raymond,  of  New  Haven. 

^Johannes  Bruyn,  Ulster  County,  N.  Y.  Born  May 
16,  1820.  Studied  law  at  Kingston,  New  York,  where  he 
resided  in  the  practice  of  that  profession  until  his  death 
in  1862,  having  maintained  an  excellent  reputation.  To 
the  time  of  his  decease  he  kept  up  friendly  correspond- 
ence with  several  of  his  classmates.     He  was  married. 

Curtis  F.  Burnam,  Richmond,  Ky.  Born  May  24, 
1820.  Took  the  degree  of  LL.  B.  at  Transylvania  Uni- 
versity, Ky.,  in  1842,  and  of  A.  M.  at  Yale,  in  1846;  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1843,  ^^^  has  since  remained  in  the 
practice  of  his  profession,  at  Richmond,  Ky.  In  May, 
1845,  married  Miss  Sarah  H.  Rollins,  of  Boone  County, 
Mo.,  and  has  eight  children, — five  sons  and  three  daugh- 
ters— the  oldest  of  whom  was  at  New  Haven,  at  the  Class- 
meeting  in  i860.  In  185 1  was  elected  to  the  Legislature 
of  Kentucky,  from  the  County  of  Madison,  and  in  1852 
was  chosen  one  of  the  Presidential  Electors  from  Ken- 
tucky, to  vote  for  Scott  and  Graham.  In  1853  declined 
the  candidacy  for  a  seat  in  the  United  States  Congress, 
from  his  District,  with  an  absolute  certainty  of  an  elec- 
tion, as  the  candidate  of  his  party  !  In  1859,  again  repre- 
sented his  County  in  the  State  Legislature,  and  in  i860 
was  a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Union  Convention 
which  assembled  at  Baltimore,  in  May.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Kentucky  Legislature  in  the  years  '60,  '61,  '62 
and  '63,  and  in  '63  was  Speaker  of  the  house.  He  strove 
to  hold  the  State  fast  to  her  allegiance  to  the  national 
government,  at  the  cost  of  much  personal  sacrifice  and 
loss. 

*WiLLiAM  Chauvenet,  Philadelphia,  Penn.  Born 
1819.  Received  his  A.  M.  in  course.  In  1841  was  ap- 
pointed Professor  of  Mathematics  in  the  U.  S.  Navy,  and 
on  the  establishment  of  the  U.  S.  Naval  Academj'-  at  An- 


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napolis,  Md.,  he  was  made  Professor  of  Astronomy,  and 
placed  at  the  head  of  that  institution.  In  1859  he  was 
elected  Professor  of  Mathematics  and  Astronomy  in  the 
Washington  University  at  St.  Louis,  and  after  three  years 
became  its  Chancellor.  In  1869  he  was  compelled  by  ill 
health  to  resign  this  office.  After  traveling  in  the  South 
without  the  restoration  hoped  for,  he  returned  to  St. 
Louis,  and  in  the  autumn  went  to  St.  Paul,  Minnesota, 
where  he  died,  Dec.  13,  1870.  He  ranked  very  high  as  a 
man  of  science,  and  was  among  the  first  mathematicians 
and  astronomers  of  our  country.  He  contributed  largely 
to  the  American  Journal  of  Science  and  the  American 
Astronomical  Journal,  and  was  a  collaborator  in  the  pre- 
paration of  the  United  States  Ephemeris,  for  which  he 
furnished  new  and  original  methods  of  finding  the  longi- 
tude by  lunar  observations.  His  ''  Treatise  on  Plane  and 
Spherical  Trigonometry  "  is  considered  one  of  the  most 
complete  works  extant  on  that  subject.  He  was  also  the 
author  of  a  treatise  on  "  Practical  Astronomy,"  in  two 
large  octavo  volumes,  which  has  received  great  commend- 
ation both  in  this  country  and  in  Europe.  His  scientific 
books  have  been  largely  used  as  text-books  in  our  higher 
schools  and  colleges,  and  their  reputation  is  on  the  in- 
crease. He  was  President  of  the  American  Association 
for  the  advancement  of  science. 

Mr.  Chauvenet  in  his  later  years  was  a  great  sufferer 
from  ill  health,  but  he  retained  to  the  last  his  bright 
piercing  look  and  pleasant  smile.  With  his  premature 
white  locks,  long  beard,  and  strikingly  intellectual  fea- 
tures, he  looked  like  an  old  Greek  Philosopher.  His 
ardent  love  of  music  formed  one  of  the  chief  solaces  of 
his  life,  spent  as  it  was  in  the  most  severe  studies.  In 
December,  1841,  he  married  Miss  Catherine  Hemple,  of 
Philadelphia.  He  left  five  children.  His  oldest  son  is 
reported  to  be  a  promising  scholar  and  chemist,  and  his 
oldest  daughter  inherits  her  father's  musical  genius.  At 
the  class  meeting  in  1870,  not  long  before  his  death,  the 
Class  voted  to  send  him  a  letter  of  sympathy  through 
Prof.  Hoppin. 

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Enoch  L.  Childs,  Henniker,  N.  H.  Born  Oct.  6,  1810. 
Was  married  in  1840  to  Miss  Harriett,  Long,  and  went 
immediately  South  ;  taught  school  several  years  in  Mont- 
gomery, Ala.,  but  since  1846  has  been  a  Railroad-bridge 
contractor  at  the  North,  in  company  with  his  brothers. 
Has  no  children.  In  1866,  he  was  connected  with  the 
department  of  Internal  Revenue  in  the  City  of  New 
York, 

'^Bagenal  Colclough,  Wexford,  Ireland.  Born  Octo- 
ber 20,  1820.  Studied  law  at  Cambridge,  receiving  the 
degree  of  LL.  B.  in  1843.  H!e  then  went  to  Ireland,  and 
from  there  brought  his  parents  to  this  country.  He 
entered  into  partnership  in  the  practice  of  law  with  his 
brother,  at  Montgomery,  Ala.  ;  but  his  health  gradually 
failed  until  his  death,  which  occurred  July  20,  1848,  in 
DeKalb  County,  Miss.,  whither  he  had  gone  for  relief. 
His  disease  was  consumption.  "  Young  as  he  was,"  says 
an  obituary  notice  in  a  Montgomery  paper,  "  he  met  death 
without  fear,  and  surrendered  this  life  with  but  little  re- 
gret. He  died  with  the  Christian's  hope  of  immortality, 
and  as  the  hour  of  dissolution  came  nearer,  his  mind 
became  clearer,  his  thoughts  more  elevated,  and  his  hopes 
brighter.  His  death  will  long  be  a  source  of  deep  regret 
to  his  friends  and  acquaintance ;  but  none  can  tell  how 
terrible  the  shock  to  his  family.  They  never  more  in  this 
life  shall  see,  '  face  to  face,'  the  good  and  dutiful  son — 
the  kind,  gentle  and  affectionate  brother."  He  was  not 
married. 

^George  H.  Colton,  Westford,  N.  Y.  Born  Oct.  25, 
1818.  Immediately  after  graduating,  taught  school  in 
Hartford,  Conn. ;  published  his  poem  '' Tecumseh,"  soon 
afterwards.  He  was  engaged  in  literary  pursuits  until 
his  death,  which  occurred  at  New  York  city,  December 
I,  1847.  He  established  the  American  (Whig)  Review, 
and  was  its  able  editor  at  the  time  of  his  death. 

William  B.  Curtis,  Exeter,  N.  Y.  Born  June  5,  1812. 
Studied  theology  at  New  Haven,  and  became  a  Clergy- 


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man  in  Humphreysville,  Conn.,  and  afterwards  in  Hunt- 
ington, Conn.  In  [858  removed  to  Plumstead,  N.  J.,  and 
in  December,  1859,  became  Pastor  of  the  Congregational 
Church  in  Branford,  Conn.  Is  married,  and  has  two  sons, 
having  lost  two  children.  He  now  resides  in  Monroe, 
Fairfield  County,  Conn.,  where  he  preaches  as  a  "  stated 
supply." 

Charles  Day,  Washington,  Conn.  Born  August  18, 
18 1 8.  Studied  law  three  years  after  graduating  and  took 
his  A.  M.  in  course.  He  has  been  engaged  in  mercantile 
life  in  Apalachicola,  Fla.,  and  New  Orleans,  La.,  since 
graduating.  Has  visited  Europe,  and  now  resides  in 
New  York  city,  as  an  officer  of  the  Atlantic  and  Great 
Western  Railway  Co.  He  married  the  daughter  of  Hon. 
S.  G.  Haven  of  Buffalo,  Dec.  14,  1865.  A  letter  from 
him  tells  the  Class  that  his  interest  in  all  that  concerns 
them  continues  unabated. 

Giles  H.  Deshon,  New  London,  Conn.     Born  March, 

1820.  Is  an  Episcopal  Clergyman;  at  present  settled  in 
the  Parish  of  Meriden,  Conn.  He  has  been  to  Europe 
since  graduating,  and  has  had  Parishes  at  Windham  and 
Glastenbury.  He  is  married  and  has  four  children,  all 
daughters.  He  has  been  twenty-one  years  rector  of  the 
Parish  Church  in  Meriden,  and  has  built  two  large  stone 
churches. 

John  Devereaux,  Raleigh,  N.  C.  Born  December 
12,  18 19.  Became  a  planter  in  North  Carolina,  soon  after 
graduating.  In  1843  he  married  Miss  Mordecai  of  Ra- 
leigh, and  has  eight  children.  Before  the  war  he  had  his 
city  residence  at  Raleigh,  and  a  plantation  at  Halifax  on 
the  Roanoke  river,  and  was  very  prosperous.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  State  Government  of  N.  C.  under  the  Con- 
federacy, and  when  Gen.  Sherman  entered  Raleigh,  Gen. 
Frank  Blair  was  quartered  near  his  place.  He  had  a  son 
under  Gen.  Jubal  Early  in  the  Valley  of  the  Shenandoah. 

Henry  M.  Dexter,  Boston,  Mass.     Born  August  13, 

1821.  Took  his  A.  M.  in  course;   studied   theology   at 


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Andover,  after  teaching  some  time  at  Rochester,  Mass. 
Was  first  Pastor  of  Franklin  Street  Church,  Manchester, 
N.  H.,  whence  in  1849  he  removed  to  Boston,  where  he 
became  Pastor  of  the  Pine  Street  Congregational  Church, 
and  afterwards  of  the  Berkeley  St.  Cong.  Church.  He 
w^as  for  a  few  years  sole  editor  of  the  Boston  ''  Congrega- 
tionalist."  Has  also  established  the  "  Congregational 
Quarterly,"  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  editors.  Married 
Miss  Emeline  Palmer,  of  Boston,  and  has  had  a  son  and 
two  daughters.  He  has  lost  his  two  daughters.  His 
son,  Henry  Morton,  was  graduated  at  Y.  C,  and  also  at 
Andover  Theol.  Seminary.  He  resigned  his  pastorate  of 
the  Berkeley  St.  Church  to  devote  himself  more  exclu- 
sively to  editorial  and  literary  labors.  He  is  now  in 
Europe  making  researches  in  preparation  for  a  work  with 
which  he  has  been  long  occupied,  the  history  of  the  Old 
Colony  (Plymouth).  Among  other  books  which  he  has 
published,  his  work  on  "  Congregationalism  "  is  the  most 
elaborate  and  is  highly  regarded. 

Richard  V.  Dodge,  Springfield,  111.  Born  August  4, 
1822.  Took  his  A.  M.  in  course.  Having  studied  theol- 
ogy at  Princeton,  N.  J.,  he  became  Pastor  of  a  Presbyte- 
rian Church,  at  Princeton,  Ind.  From  there  he  removed 
to  Terre  Haute,  Ind.,  and  thence  to  Springfield,  111.  He 
then  became  Pastor  of  a  Presbyterian  Church  in  Wheel- 
ing, Va.  He  is  now  settled  over  a  Presbyterian  Church 
in  Madison,  Wis.  Married  Miss  Ridgely  in  1845,  ^^^ 
has  four  children. 

John  M.  Doubleday,  Binghamton,  N.  Y.  Born 
March  13,  1821.  Taught  school  for  a  while,  but  his  health 
having  failed,  he  became  a  merchant  in  1846.  He  is  now 
in  good  business  as  an  Umbrella  manufacturer  at  136  Wil- 
liam street,  New  York  city,  and  resides  in  Montclair, 
N.  J.  Visited  Europe  four  years  since.  Married,  and 
has  two  children. 

John  W.  Douglas,  Trenton,  N.  Y.  Born  April,  1818. 
Taught  school  at  the  South  for  some  time  ;  studied  theol- 


ogy,  and  in  1848  went  as  a  Missionary  to  California,  and 
in  1849  took  charge  of  a  Church  at  San  Jose,  for  eighteen 
months.  For  four  years  publisher  of  a  religious  paper 
called  "  The  Pacific."  In  May,  1855,  returned  to  the 
East,  and  has  resided  at  Trenton,  Oneida  Co.,  N.  Y. 
During  the  war  of  the  Rebellion  he  was  in  the  civil  ser- 
vice in  connection  with  military  R.  Roads  in  North  Caro- 
lina, on  the  Union  side,  and  after  peace  went  into  the 
culture  of  cotton  at  the  South.     Is  not  married. 

*J0HN  B.  DwiGHT,  Norwich,  Conn.  Born  December 
8,  1 82 1.  Was  engaged  the  first  year  after  graduating  in 
teaching.  He  received  his  A.  M.  in  course,  and  in  1843 
became  a  Tutor  in  Yale  College  ;  he  was  also  attached  to 
the  Yale  Law  School.  He  died  October  20,  1843,  from  a 
knife  wound  received  while  endeavoring,  as  Tutor,  to 
quell  a  disturbance  among  the  students. 

Jonathan  Edwards,  Andover,  Mass.  Born  July  17, 
1820.  Received  his  A.M.  in  course;  taught  school  in 
Lunenburg,  Va.,  and  in  Gorham  and  Augusta,  Me. ;  stud- 
ied theology  at  New  Haven  and  Andover,  and  was  the 
Pastor  of  a  Congregational  Church  in  Woburn,  Mass., 
till  1856,  when  he  removed  to  Rochester,  N.  Y.  Re- 
mained in  Rochester  some  years  as  Pastor  of  a  Congre- 
gational Church.  In  1863  was  settled  over  a  Church  in 
Dedham,  Mass.,  where  he  now  resides.  In  1848  married 
Miss  Frances  S.  Bronson,  and  has  two  daughters  and  a 
son. 

Nathaniel  H.  Eggleston,  Hartford,  Conn.  Born 
May  7,  1822.  Immediately  after  graduating  engaged  in 
the  study  of  law,  at  Hartford  ;  was  afterwards  a  resident 
graduate  at  New  Haven,  where  he  studied  theology,  and 
in  1845  became  Pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  in 
Ellington,  Conn.,  at  which  place  he  remained  until  1850. 
He  was  for  a  time,  in  New  Haven,  the  acting  Pastor  of 
the  First  Congregational  Society,  during  the  absence  of 
Rev.  Dr.  Bacon  in  Europe.  In  185 1  removed  to  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.,  and  thence,  in   1853,  to  Chicago,  111.,   to  take 


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the  charge  of  a  Church  and  a  religious  newspaper.  Re- 
maining there  two  years,  he  then  removed  to  Madison, 
Wisconsin,  remaining  till  i860,  when  he  resigned  his 
charge  and  came  East.  He  was  next  installed  as  a  Pastor 
in  Stockbridge,  Mass.,  Avhere  he  remained  nine  years: 
was  temporary  Professor  of  Rhetoric  at  Williams  Col- 
lege, where  his  eldest  son  has  just  graduated.  He  was 
married,  July  30,  1844,  to  Miss  Sarah  Ann  Winship,  of 
Hartford,  Conn.,  and  has  four  children. 

^Stuart  W.  Fisk,  Natchez,  Miss.  Born  August  28, 
1820.  Took  his  A.  M.  in  course  ;  studied  law  and  received 
LL.  B.  at  Harvard,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Natchez 
Bar  in  1843.  I^^  1846-7,  he  traveled  in  Europe.  He  be- 
came very  wealthy,  and  during  the  late  war  was  Colonel 
of  a  Southern  regiment  from  Natchez,  and  was  killed  at 
the  battle  of  Murfreesborough  (or  Shiloh). 

Lucius  W.  Fitch,  New  Haven.  Born  July  25,  1820. 
Took  his  A.  M.  in  course.  Soon  after  graduation,  was 
for  a  few  months  connected  with  the  religious  press  in 
Boston,  Mass.  Studied  medicine,  but  did  not  practice. 
In  1845,  engaged  ii^  farming  in  the  town  of  Huntington, 
Conn.,  where  he  resided  two  years.  In  1847  removed  to 
New  Haven.  From  1849  to  1857,  was  a  Bookseller  in 
New  Haven.  Since  the  latter  period,  has  been  employed 
in  the  office  of  the  Treasurer  of  Yale  College.  Within 
the  last  few  years,  has  devoted  much  of  his  time  to  lite- 
rary pursuits,  having  translated  for  Hon.  H.  Barnard's 
Journal  of  Education,  the  first  volume  of  Von  Raumer's 
Paedagogic,  also  the  ''  Gaudeamus  igitur  "  and  the  "  Lau- 
riger  Horatius,"  which  latter  translations  are  embodied 
with  the  number  of  College  Songs  that  have  become 
classical.  Was  married  in  1845  to  Miss  Sarah  P.  Tufts, 
of  New  Haven,  and  has  had  five  children,  of  whom  two 
are  now  living. 

Stephen  C.  Foster,.  East  Machias,  Me.  Born  1820. 
On  graduating,  went  to  the  South,  and  in  1843  was  en- 
gaged  in  Alabama,  teaching.     He   subsequently  studied 


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medicine  in  New  Orleans,  and  in  1846  was  a  Physician  in 
Santa  Fe,  New  Mexico.  He  was  afterwards  in  Chihua- 
hua, and  in  1848  was  reported  to  the  Class  as  ''probably 
killed  by  the  Indians."  But  in  a  published  sketch  of  the 
members  of  the  Convention  to  form  a  Constitution  for 
the  State  of  California,  there  is  mentioned  among  the 
delegates  from  Sonora,  "  Stephen  C.  Foster,  aged  twenty- 
eight,  born  in  East  Machias,  Me.,  removed  to  Missouri, 
thence  to  Pueblo  de  los  Angelos  ;  has  lived  in  California 
three  years ;  an  agriculturist."  Has  been  a  member  of 
the  State  Senate  of  California,  and  several  times  Mayor 
of  the  city  of  Los  Angelos.  He  married  a  Spanish  lady 
there,  of  one  of  the  old  families  of  the  country,  and  had 
one  daughter. 

■^^Thomas  E.  Foster,  Andover,  Mass.  Born  December 
16,  1820.  Took  his  A.  M.  in  course;  taught  school  some 
time,  and  was  for  several  years  an  instructor  in  Phil- 
ip's Academy,  Andover.  Studied  theology  at  Andover, 
preached  in  Vermont ;  was  not  ordained  or  married,  and 
died  at  Andover,  in  185 1. 

John  B.  Gardiner,  New  York  City.  Born  Sept.  9, 
1821.  Took  his  A.  M.  in  course;  studied  law  and  was 
admitted  to  practice  in  New  York  city.  Practiced  his 
profession  in  New  York,  residing  in  Brooklyn.  Married, 
Oct.  I,  1857,  and  had  one  child.     Supposed  to  be  dead. 

Henry  M.  Goodwin,  Hartford,  Conn.  Born  June, 
1820.  Studied  theology  at  New  Haven  and  New  York. 
In  1850  went  to  Chicago,  and  thence  to  Alton  and  Rock- 
ford,  111.,  where  he  has  been  settled  for  some  twenty  years 
as  Pastor  of  a  Congregational  Church.  He  is  at  present 
erecting  a  new  and  elegant  stone  church.  He  has  won 
reputation  as  a  religious  writer  and  philosophical  thinker. 
Married,  in  1854,  Miss  Martha  French,  of  Bath,  N.  H., 
and  has  two  children. 

Samuel  Gregory,  Guilford,  Vermont.  Born  April 
19,  1813.     Received  his  A.  M.  in  1845.     For  several  years 


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after  graduating-  he  was  engaged  in  teaching,  lecturing 
and  writing  on  educational  and  sanitary  subjects.  He 
wrote  a  History  of  Mexico,  at  the  time  of  the  war  with 
that  country.  In  1847,  he  engaged  in  an  enterprise  that 
has  occupied  his  exclusive  attention  to  the  present  time — 
the  medical  education  of  women,  and  their  introduction 
into  the  profession.  To  carry  the  idea  into  effect,  he 
started  the  New  England  Female  Medical  College,  in 
Boston,  in  1848 — said  to  be  the  first  institution  of  the 
kind  in  the  world.  It  received  a  liberal  charter  and 
early  pecuniary  aid  from  the  Massachusetts  Legislature, 
and  now  has  real  and  personal  property  to  the  amount  of 
$80,000.  It  has  a  spacious  lot  of  land  and  a  newly  erec- 
ted college  edifice,  conveniently  located  by  the  side  of 
the  City  Hospital.  He  has  advocated  the  object  by 
means  of  public  lectures,  various  pamphlets,  annual  re- 
ports, and  the  public  press,  giving  a  wide  scope  to  his 
efforts ;  some  of  his  writings  having  been  published  and 
circulated  in  England,  and  some  having  urged  the  sending 
out  of  female  missionary  physicians  to  foreign  lands  by 
the  different  religious  denominations.  He  received  an 
honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine  in  1853.  He 
resides  in  Boston,  and  is  not  married. 

^Joseph  M.  Grout,  Westboro,  Mass.  Born  Sept.  11, 
1814.  Received  his  A.  M.  in  course;  studied  theology, 
after  teaching  awhile,  and  was  for  several  years  a  Mis- 
sionary of  the  American  Home  Missionary  Society  at 
Warsaw,  111.,  where  he  died  in  1855.  He  married  and  left 
several  children  at  his  death. 

John  P.  Gulliver,  Boston,  Mass.  Born  May  12,  18 19. 
Received  his  A.  M.  in  course  ;  studied  theology  after 
teaching  school  awhile  at  Randolph,  and  in  1846  became 
the  Pastor  of  Broadway  Congregational  Church  in  Nor- 
wich, Conn.  He  did  much  for  the  schools  of  that  city, 
and  by  his  personal  exertions  mainly,  secured  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  Norwich  Free  Academy,  with  an  endow- 
ment of  over  $125,000.     In  1850  went  to  Russia  in  conse- 


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quence  of  broken  health.  Remained  in  Norwich  twenty 
years,  and  in  Dec,  '65,  became  Pastor  of  the  New  England 
church  in  Chicago.  After  three  years  of  sickness  and 
suffering,  during  which  he  lost  two  children,  he  was 
elected  a  Trustee  and  then  the  President  of  Knox  College, 
111.  He  entered  upon  this  duty  in  August,  1868,  and  has 
already  brought  up  the  College  to  a  high  rank.  Has  had 
the  title  of  D.  D.  conferred  upon  him.  In  1846  he  married 
Miss  Frances  W.  Curtis  and  has  had  several  children. 
His  oldest  son  recently  graduated  at  Yale. 

John  L.  Hamelin,  Philadelphia.  Born  18 19.  Re- 
ceived his  A.  M.  in  1844.  Fo^  three  years  was  engaged  in 
teaching  in  a  classical  school,  when  he  entered  into  mer- 
cantile pursuits  and  continued  in  business  for  seventeen 
years.  In  i860  resumed  literary  labors  and  is  now  editing 
'*  Emerson  Bennett's  Dollar  Monthly,"  in  Philadelphia. 
Married  in  1841  and  has  three  children. 

James  P.  Hart,  Farmington,  Conn.  Born  July  27, 
1817.  Studied  theology,  and  afterwards  became  a  pub- 
lisher of  works  on  Etymology,  in  which  not  succeeding, 
he  visited  the  fugitive  slaves  in  Canada.  He  subsequently 
gave  his  attention  to  the  science  of  Phonograph}^  He 
resides  in  New  Haven. 

John  Frazier  Head,  Boston,  Mass.  Born  January  9, 
1 82 1.  Studied  medicine  and  received  M.  D.  at  Harvard. 
Took  his  A.  M.  in  course.  In  August,  1846,  became  at- 
tached to  the  Medical  Staff,  United  States  Army,  and  was 
with  Scott's  army,  in  Mexico.  He  went  to  Europe  to 
stud}^  the  European  military  hospital  systems,  and  on  his 
return  was  ordered  to  Oregon  via  Missouri  and  Columbia 
rivers,  a  distance  of  3,000  miles.  During  the  late  civil 
war  he  had  charge  of  thirty  hospitals  in  Ky.  Thence 
went  to  West  Point  and  is  now  medical  director  of  the 
military  Department  of  Dacotah,  at  St.  Paul,  Minn.  In 
August,  1846,  married  Miss  Apthorp,  of  New  Haven.  He 
has  one  son. 

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'^Ambrose  N.  Hitchcock,  Brimfield,  Mass.  Born 
November  28,  18 13.  Died  soon  after  graduating,  in 
Kentucky,  while  teaching  school. 

GuSTAVUS  A.  HOLCOMBE,  Savannah,  Ga.  Born  De- 
cember 26,  1820.  Studied  medicine  in  Philadelphia.  Is 
a  practicing  physician  near  Savannah,  and  is  unmarried. 

Gideon  H.  Hollister,  Washington,  Conn.  Born 
December  14,  1818.  Studied  law  in  Litchfield,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  of  Litchfield  County  in  April,  1842. 
He  has  since  resided  in  Litchfield,  where  he  continued  to 
practice  his  profession  till  1859,  when  he  opened  an  office 
in  the  city  of  New  York.  Was  for  four  years  Clerk  of 
the  Courts  of  Litchfield  County.  He  went  as  United 
States  Charge  d'  affairs  to  Hayti,  when  that  country  was 
under  the  administration  of  Salnave.  On  his  recall  he 
took  up  his  residence  in  Stratford,  Conn.  He  practices 
law  in  company  with  his  brother  in  Bridgeport.  In  1855, 
he  published  a  History  of  Connecticut,  in  two  volumes,  of 
which  two  editions  have  been  exhausted  of  two  thousand 
copies  each.  In  1856  he  was  a  member  of  the  Connecticut 
State  Senate.  He  is  the  author  of  three  historical  dramas, 
one  of  them  bearing  the  title  of  "  Thomas  a  Becket." 
He  has  also  written  a  legal  treatise  on  the  Law  of  Eminent 
Domain.  He  is  now  engaged  in  writing  a  history  of 
Hayti.  In  June,  1847,  married  Miss  Mary  S.  Brisbane,  of 
Charleston,  S.  C,  and  has  had  four  children,  onl}^  one  of 
whom  survives. 

John  C.  Hollister,  Manchester,  Vt.  Born  June  2, 
1 818.  Studied  law  in  Northampton,  Mass.,  and  New 
Haven  Law  School.  Was  admitted  to  the  New  Haven 
bar  in  1842.  Took  his  A.  M.  in  course.  Has  been  Grand 
Juror  for  New  Haven,  and  Clerk  of  the  Connecticut 
Senate  ;  and  for  several  years  w^as  principal  Magistrate  of 
the  Town  of  New  Haven.  Was  married  to  Miss  Martha 
L.  Bradley,  of  New  Haven,  who  deceased  March  5th, 
1849,  leaving  two  children.     Married  Miss  Sarah  S.  Ship- 


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man,  of  New  Haven,  October  31st,  1850.  Has  had  seven 
children,  four  now  living.  Resides  in  New  Haven  prac- 
ticing law. 

James  M.  Hoppin,  Providence,  R.  I.  Born  January 
17,  1820.  Studied  theology  at  Andover  and  after  that 
spent  three  years  as  a  student  in  Germany  and  in  foreign 
travel.  On  his  return  in  1850,  was  settled  as  pastor  over 
the  Crombie  St.  Church  in  Salem,  Mass.  After  being 
nine  years  in  Salem  he  went  again  to  Europe,  with  his 
family,  and  was  eighteen  months  abroad.  In  1861  he  was 
made  Professor  in  the  Theological  School  of  Yale  College 
as  successor  of  Prof.  Goodrich,  which  position  he  now 
occupies.  In  1854  he  published  a  book  called  "Notes  of 
a  Theological  Student;"  and  in  1867  a  book  called  ''Old 
England";  and  in  1869  a  text-book  upon  Homiletics  and 
Pastoral  Theology,  entitled  "  Office  and  Work  of  the 
Christian  Ministry."  In  1870  he  received  the  degree  of 
D.  D.  from  Knox  College.  On  the  occasion  of  their  thir- 
tieth anniversar}^  meeting  he  entertained  his  classmates  at 
his  house,  for  which  they  returned  him  a  cordial  vote  of 
thanks.  In  1850  married  Miss  Mary  D.  Perkins,  of  Litch- 
field, Conn.,  and  has  two  sons.  His  oldest  son  is  now  a 
Junior  in  Yale  College. 

William  A.  Houghton,  Berlin,  Mass.  Born  June  2, 
1812.  Studied  theology  at  New  Haven  ;  was  settled  at 
Northborough,  Mass.,  as  pastor  of  the  Evangelical  Church, 
in  1843.  Leaving  Northborough  in  185 1,  he  removed  to 
Berlin,  Mass.,  his  native  town,  and  that  of  his  wife,  where 
he  still  resides,  and  labors  faithfully  in  his  sacred  calling. 
Was  married  in  18 14,  to  Miss  Mary  G.  Howe,  of  Berlin, 
Mass.,  but  has  no  children.  His  adopted  daughter,  now 
married,  resides  with  him. 

■^Joseph  G.  Hoyt,  Dunbarton,  N.  H.  Born  January 
19,  181 5.  Immediately  upon  graduation  he  became  prin- 
cipal of  the  Academy  at  Plymouth,  N.  H.  ;  but,  at  the 
expiration  of  one  year,  accepted  an  appointment  as  Pro- 
fessor of  Mathematics  and  Natural  Philosophy,  in  Phillips' 


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Exeter  Academy,  N.  H.,  where  he  continued  eighteen 
years.  In  1850-51  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Con- 
vention for  the  revision  of  the  State  Constitution,  and  at 
a  later  period  "  fortunately  escaped  being-  sent  to  Con- 
gress." Under  his  influence,  the  public  schools  of  his 
own  town  were  re-organized  and  graded,  and  new  build- 
ings erected,  including  a  beautiful  structure  for  a  High 
School.  In  the  winter  of  1845-46,  he  revised  Colton's 
Greek  Reader,  furnishing  an  entirely  new  Lexicon.  April 
13,  1842,  he  married  MargaretteS.  Chamberlain,  of  Exeter, 
and  in  due  process  of  time  became  "  the  bewildered  father 
of  six  children," — three  sons  and  three  daughters — live 
living,  of  whom  the  oldest  is  a  daughter.  In  December, 
1858,  he  accepted  the  appointment  of  Chancellor  and  Pro- 
fessor of  the  Greek  Language  and  Literature,  in  Washing- 
ton University, — a  well  endowed  and  promising  institution 
in  the  city  of  St.  Louis,  and  entering  upon  his  new  duties 
the  following  February,  he  was  formally  inaugurated, 
October  4,  1859.  ^^  received  from  Dartmouth  College, 
at  its  Commencement  in  July,  1859,  the  honorary  degree 
of  Doctor  of  Laws.  Mr.  Hoyt  died  of  pulmonary  con- 
sumption, after  protracted  suffering,  Nov.  26,  1862,  aged 
nearly  forty-eight  years.  During  his  declining  days  he 
occupied  some  of  his  time  in  making  a  collection  of  his 
miscellaneous  writings,  addresses,  lectures  and  reviews, 
which  were  printed  after  his  death,  with  an  introductory 
note  by  Rev.  Dr.  A.  P.  Peabody,  of  Harvard  College.  A 
commemorative  discourse,  by  Prof.  S.  Waterhouse,  deliv- 
ered in  St.  Louis,  Jan.  20,  1863,  has  also  been  published. 
He  impressed  himself  by  his  vigorous  mind  and  generous 
nature,  strongly  upon  the  communities  where  he  lived, 
and  his  loss  to  the  educational  world  was,  and  still  is, 
deeply  felt. 

Chauncey  H.  Hubbard,  Springfield,  Mass.  Born  Feb- 
ruary 10,  1820.  Taught  school  at  the  South  for  a  while; 
studied  theology  at  New  Haven,  and  was  a  settled  pastor 
at  Greenwich,  Conn.,  and  afterwards  in  Sand  Lake,  N.  Y. 
Is  now  residing  at  Bennington,  Vt.,  and  is  married. 


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Timothy  D.  Hunt,  Rochester,  N.  Y.  Born  March, 
1 82 1.  Studied  theology  at  Auburn,  N.  Y.  Went  a  mis- 
sionary of  the  Arnerican  Board  of  Commissioners  of  For- 
eign Missions,  to  Honolulu,  Sandwich  Islands,  which  place 
he  left  in  1848,  for  San  Francisco,  Cal.  He  was  the  first 
minister  of  the  gospel  in  California,  and  organized  the  first 
church  there, — remaining  over  eight  years.  While  there, 
he  published  ''  The  Past  and  Present  of  the  Sandwich 
Islands,"  and  was  one  of  the  editors  of  "The  Pacific." 
He  married  Miss  Mary  Hedges,  November  i,  1843,  ^^^ 
has  had  eleven  children,  six  daughters  and  five  sons,  of 
whom  eight  are  now  living.  He  became  a  grandfather  at 
the  age  of  forty-eight.  He  is  now  pastor  of  a  Presby- 
terian Church  in  Niles,  Mich.  He  has  labored  with  self- 
den3ang  zeal  and  great  success  for  the  sacred  cause  to 
which  he  early  and  enthusiastically  devoted  himself. 

Thomas  S.  Huntington,  Hartford,  Conn.  Born  June 
20,  1820.  In  the  winter  of  1840  went  to  the  South,  where, 
for  a  few  years,  he  was  occupied  as  a  teacher,  and  in  the 
study  of  the  belles-lettres.  Thence  he  went  to  Cincinnati, 
where  his  father  had  removed.  In  1844  he  was  living  as 
a  farmer,  in  Wisconsin;  but  since  1850,  has  resided  prin- 
cipally in  Cincinnati,  as  a  Land  Surveyor,  until  i860, 
when  he  removed,  with  his  family,  to  a  new  settle- 
ment on  Lake  Pepin.  In  1866,  reported  as  being  in  Cin- 
cinnati. 

Thomas  S.  Iglehart,  Ann  Arundel  County,  Md.  Born 
February  27,  1820.  For  several  years  resided  on  his  farm, 
near  Annapolis,  Md.  In  1848  was  a  member  of  the  House 
of  Delegates  of  Maryland,  and  for  a  time  Tobacco  In- 
spector of  the  State,  residing  at  Baltimore.  Lost  his  first 
wife ;  is  married  again,  and  has  two  children  ;  resides 
upon  a  beautiful  estate  about  ten  miles  from  Annapolis, 
Md. 

Charles  R.  Ingersoll,  New  Haven,  Conn.  Born 
September  16,  1821.  Was  in  Europe  two  years  after 
graduating.      Returning,  studied  law  in  New  Haven,  and 


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was  admitted  to  the  New  Haven  bar  in  December,  1844. 
Has  been  several  times  a  member  of  the  General  Assembly 
of  Connecticut.  Married  Miss  Virginia  Gregory,  Decem- 
ber, 1847,  3.nd  has  four  children  living — one  a  member  of 
the  present  Freshman  Class,  Yale  College.  Resides  in 
the  practice  of  the  law,  at  New  Haven. 

Horace  James,  Medford,  Mass.  Born  May  6,  18 18. 
Studied  theology  at  Andover  and  New  Haven  ;  took  his 
A.  M.  in  course.  Married  Miss  Helen  Leavitt,  of  Boston, 
in  September,  1843,  ^^^  was  settled  as  a  Pastor  in  Wren- 
tham,  Mass.,  the  first  of  November  following.  While 
acting  as  pastor  here  he  was  employed  at  times  by  the 
State  to  lecture  in  behalf  of  Common  School  Education. 
In  1853  he  removed  to  Worcester,  Mass.,  and  took  charge 
of  the  First  Church  there.  When  the  late  war  broke  out 
he  left  this  pastorate  to  take  an  army  chaplaincy  in  the 
Twenty-fifth  Mass.  Regt.  Inf.  Vols.  After  occupying  this 
position  during  two  years  of  service  in  the  field,  he  was 
made  Assistant  Quartermaster  on  the  general  staff  with 
the  rank  of  Captain,  and  placed  in  charge  of  the  Freed- 
men  of  the  State  of  North  Carolina,  where  he  was  ap- 
pointed Commissioner  of  the  Freedmen's  Bureau.  He 
was  mustered  out  of  service  in  January,  1866.  The  war 
being  closed,  he  spent  a  year  at  the  South,  planting  cotton 
and  organizing  labor  among  the  Freedmen.  He  was  in- 
stalled pastor  of  the  First  Church,  in  Lowell,  Mass.,  in 
October,  1867,  where  he  now  resides.  He  has  lost  six 
children  of  his  own,  and  two  adopted  ones,  and  has  but 
one  child,  a  daughter,  living. 

James  R.  Jesup,  Westport,  Conn.  Borii  1821.  Took 
his  A.  M.  in  course  ;  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the 
New  York  bar  in  1843.  Although  of  wealthy  parentage 
he  determined  to  make  his  own  way  in  the  world,  and  in 
a  struggle  of  many  years,  kept  up  with  great  energy,  he 
entirely  succeeded  in  his  purpose.  He  has  now  become 
rich  through  a  lucrative  business  and  the  inheritance  of 
property.  His  son  is  a  merchant.  He  still  resides  in  New 
York. 


Chauncey  p.  Judd,  Northampton,  Mass.  Born  June 
25,  181 7.  After  graduating-  he  went  to  South  Carolina, 
studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1845.  He  had 
an  office  in  Boston  until  1850.  Removed  to  Reading, 
Mass.,  where  he  still  lives  in  the  practice  of  his  profession. 
He  attended  the  Class-Meeting  in  1870,  that  being  the  first 
time  he  had  visited  New  Haven  since  his  graduation.  In 
1857  he  married  Miss  Sarah  Dawes,  of  Cambridge,  Mass., 
and  has  had  three  children,  of  whom  two  are  living. 

"^JOHN  S.  Kelley,  Middletown,  Conn.     Born  June  26, 
1 82 1.      Died  December  29,  1844,  while   in  the  New  York 
■  Theological  Seminary. 

'^Jared  Owen  Knapp,  Greenwich,  Conn.  Born  Oct.  6, 
1818.  Taught  school  three  years  in  Middletown,  Conn.; 
took  his  A.  M.  in  course,  and  studied  theology  at  New 
Haven  ;  in  1846  became  a  settled  Pastor  in  Plainfield, 
(Central  Village,)  Conn.  In  185 1  was  called  to  Hatfield, 
Mass.  Leaving  this  place  in  1855,  he  was  Pastor  of  the 
Church  at  Suspension  Bridge,  Niagara  Falls,  from  that 
time  till  1858.  Failing  in  health  he  retired  to  Beloit,  Wis., 
where  he  attempted  to  take  charge  of  a  Parish,  but  found 
his  strength  insufficient.  He  died  at  the  latter  place,  July 
14,  i860. 

'^David  Lamb,  Pittstown,  N.  Y.  Born  January^,  1820. 
Studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  practice  in  Troy,  N.  Y. 
In  1850  resided  at  Cincinnati,  in  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession. Died  at  sea,  on  board  an  Ocean  Steamer,  on  his 
way  from  Panama  to  San  Francisco,  in  the  year  1852. 

George  D.  LaMont,  Gaines,  N.  Y.  Received  his  A. 
B.  in  1 841.  Settled  as  a  lawyer  in  Lockport,  N.  Y.,  where 
he  now  resides.  Has  been  District  Attorney  of  Niagara 
County,  and  Senator  of  the  State  of  New  York. 

Amos  Edward  Lawrence,  Geneseo,  N.  Y.  Born  June 
25,  1812.  Prepared  for  College  at  Phillips'  Academy, 
Andover,  Mass.,  and  entered  from  New  York  City.    After 


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graduating,  he  spent  a  year  traveling  through  the  North- 
west. Returning  to  New  York,  in  the  fall  of  1841,  he 
entered  the  Union  Theological  Seminary,  completing  his 
course,  and  graduating  at  that  institution  in  1844.  In  the 
spring  of  that  year,  entered  the  office  of  the  American 
Home  Missionary  Society,  as  Assistant  Secretary,  with 
Rev.  Drs.  Badger  and  Hall,  in  which  service  he  spent  four 
years,  and  in  1848  settled  in  the  ministry  over  the  Con- 
gregational Church  of  Cutchogue,  L.  I.  In  1851  he  re- 
moved to  Southbury,  New  Haven  County,  Conn.  Thence 
he  was  called  to  the  Pastorate  of  the  Orthodox  Congre- 
gational Church  of  Lancaster,  Mass.,  where  he  remained 
four  years  ;  then  went  to  Housatonic,  in  the  town  of  Great 
Harrington,  Mass.,  and  preached  there  three  years;  re- 
moved thence  to  Stockbridge,  where  he  now  resides.  In 
September,  1846,  he  married  Miss  Hannah  Bowne,  of  New 
York,  who  died  in  April,  1858,  after  having  borne  him 
two  children— a  daughter  and  a  son.  On  the  i8th  of  May, 
1859,  h^  w^s  again  married  to  Miss  Ann  Maria  Crocker, 
daughter  of  Oliver  Crocker,  Esq.,  of  New  Bedford,  by 
whom  he  had  one  son,  George  Crocker,  born  May  loth, 
i860.  He  lost  his  second  wife,  and  in  1867  married  Miss 
Lucy  W.  Davis.  His  oldest  son,  Horace  James,  is  a 
printer;  he  has  three  other  children  living,  two  sons  and 
a  daughter. 

William  S.  Leavitt,  Bloomfield,  N.  J.  Born  January 
26,  1822.  Read  law  one  year,  then  studied  theology  four 
years;  took  his  A.  M.  in  course.  Became  a  pastor  of  the 
Congregational  Church  at  Newton  Center,  Mass.,  then  a 
minister  in  Hudson,  N.  Y.  In  1867  he  went  to  North- 
ampton, where  he  still  resides  as  pastor  of  the  First  Con- 
gregational Church.  He  is  one  of  the  solid  men  of  the 
Class,  both  intellectually  and  in  avoirdupois,  weighing 
over  two  hundred  pounds.  He  is,  however,  still  an  active 
and  enthusiastic  fisherman,  and  as  skilled  with  the  rod  as 
the  pen.  He  married  Miss  Grover,  of  Newark,  N.  J.,  in 
November,  1845,  ^^^^  has  one  child. 


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William  H.  Long,  Hopkinton,  N.  H.  Born  Sept.  9, 
1813.  Took  his  A.  M.  in  course;  taught  a  private  school 
several  years  and  studied  theology  in  New  Haven  in  1844, 
and  began  to  preach,  but  his  health  failing,  he  has  since 
1847  been  in  charge  of  a  large  public  school  in  Roxbury, 
Mass.,  where  he  is  still  teaching  and  is  highly  esteemed  as 
an  instructor.  His  health,  however,  is  poor.  Married 
Miss  Lucia  A.  D.  Rollins,  in  1848  ;  has  no  children. 

Henry  McCall,  Donaldsonville,  La.  Born  1821. 
Took  his  A.  M.  in  course ;  studied  law  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  Philadelphia,  where  he  now  resides.  In  1844 
married  Miss  Willcocks,  of  Philadelphia.  Is  at  present 
in  Europe  with  his  family. 

Daniel  March,  Millbury,  Conn.  Born  July  21,  18 16. 
Took  his  A.  M.  in  course  ;  after  studying  theology,  resided 
for  a  time  in  Fairfield  County,  Conn.,  and  in  1846  became 
a  pastor  in  Cheshire,  whence  he  removed  to  Nashua,  N. 
H.,  and  was  settled  over  the  First  Congregational  Church. 
He  was  then  settled  over  a  congregation  in  Woburn,  Mass.; 
afterwards  became  pastor  of  the  Clinton  Street  Presbyte« 
rian  Church  in  Philadelphia,  where  he  now  lives.  In  1846 
he  was  chosen  Phi  Beta  Kappa  poet  at  Yale.  He  has 
published  two  works  respecting  Bible  lands,  ''  Walks  and 
Talks  of  Jesus,"  and  "  Night  Scenes  in  the  Bible  ";  also  a 
work  entitled  "  Nature  and  Revelation."  Mr.  March  has 
gone  a  second  time  to  Europe,  and  to  Palestine,  to  gather 
materials  for  other  works  of  the  same  character.  He  is 
married  and  has  five  children. 

LORING  B.  Marsh,  Ware,  Mass.  Born  February  12, 
1816.  Studied  theology  in  New  Haven;  went  to  Eddy- 
ville,  Wapello  County,  Iowa,  in  1847,  ^^^^1  abandoned  his 
field  of  labor  in  1858,  on  account  of  protracted  ill  health. 
Taught  a  High  School  in  Berlin,  Mass.,  in  1854-5.  In 
1858  assumed  the  charge  of  the  Congregational  Church 
in  North  Scituate,  R.  I.  In  1862,  went  to  Wading  River, 
L.  I.,  and   thence   in   October,    1869,   to   Huntington,   Ct., 

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where  he  is  now  settled.  He  is  a  man  of  great  attain- 
ments in  theological  and  metaphysical  studies.  Was 
married  in  1865,  and  has  two  daughters  and  a  son. 

^Cpiarles  J.  Miller,  Fayetteville,  Vt.  Born  Jan.  26, 
1816.  Soon  after  graduating  went  to  Mount  Carmel,  111., 
studied  medicine  with  Dr.  Lescher ;  married  a  daughter 
of  the  Doctor,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occur- 
red May  loth,  1859,  was  in  compan}^  with  his  wife's 
brother  in  the  drug  business,  and  successful  practice  of 
his  profession.  Had  one  son,  and  a  daughter  was  born 
after  his  decease. 

Dewitt  C.  Morris,  Philadelphia,  Pa.  Born  July  13, 
1821.  Took  his  A.  M.  in  course;  studied  law  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  Philadelphia.  In  1846  married 
Miss  Johnson,  of  New  Haven,  now  deceased,  and  has  two 
children. 

William  H.  Norris,  Baltimore,  Md.  A  merchant  in 
Baltimore  in  1841.  Went  to  Europe  in  1842.  Admitted 
to  Baltimore  bar  in  1844.  Land  Surveyor  in  Texas  in 
1845.  Practicing  law  in  New  Orleans  in  1845,  '4^>  '47- 
In  California  in  1848,  '49,  practicing  law,  mining,  survey- 
ing and  speculating,  and,  for  awhile,  acting  as  Judge  Ad- 
vocate for  the  U.  S.  Squadron  in  the  Pacific.  In  Europe 
in  1850.  In  185 1  married  in  Valparaiso,  Chili.  Same 
year  returned  to  Baltimore,  "  dropped  anchor  and  moored 
for  life."  In  the  war  was  in  the  service  of  the  Confederate 
Government  for  the  exchange  of  prisoners,  and  a  major 
in  the  Signal  Corps.     He  has  four  children. 

Daniel  P.  Noyes,  Newbury,  Mass.  Born  June  4, 
1820.  Taught  school  in  Salem,  Pembroke,  and  Byfield, 
Mass.  Was  three  years  a  tutor  in  Yale  College.  Took 
his  A.  M.  in  1846;  studied  theology  one  year  at  Andover ; 
resided  awhile  at  Newbury,  Mass.,  and  in  April,  1849, 
became  pastor  of  the  Jay  Street  Presbyterian  Church,  in 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  In  1854,  was  Secretary  of  the  American 
Home  Missionary  Society.      He  now  lives  in  Longwood, 


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near  Boston,  and  has  for  several  years  been  acting-  as  Sec- 
retary of  the  Home  Evangelization  Society  in  Mass. 
He  is  a  lecturer  upon  that  subject  in  Andover  Theological 
Seminary.     Married  in  1850,  and  has  four  children. 

'^OSCAR  T.  NOYES,  Modena,  Ulster  County,  N.  Y. 
Born  April  22,  18 19.  Studied  law  and  was  lawyer  and 
farmer,  in  Ulster  County,  N.  Y.,  Modena  Post  Office. 
Was  married.     Died  in  1854. 

Orrin  Otis,  Colchester,  Conn.  Born  May  12,  18 12. 
Studied  theology  in  Union  Seminary,  N.  Y.,  and  in  1846 
was  settled  as  a  clergyman  in  Chepachet,  R.  I.,  where  he 
remained  as  a  faithful  worker  in  a  difficult  field  for  twenty- 
one  3^ears.  He  left  Chepachet  in  1866  and  went  to  Provi- 
dence. He  married  a  sister  of  his  classmate,  Knapp,  and 
has  five  children.     His  oldest  son  is  in  business. 

Lewis  Parsons,  Perry,  Genesee  County,  N.  Y.  Born 
April,  18 1 8.  Took  his  A.  M.  in  course.  On  graduating, 
went  to  New  Orleans,  in  company  with  Colclough  and 
James  Smith.  After  struggling  some  time  with  adversity, 
having  taught  school  eighteen  months  in  Mississippi,  he 
entered  the  Harvard  Law  School,  and  there  went  through 
the  course  of  legal  studies.  In  1844  he  entered  into  a  law 
partnership  with  an  old  practitioner  in  Alton,  111.,  where 
he  resided  a  number  of  years.  Was  City  Attorney  for 
four  years.  Sev^eral  years  since,  he  removed  to  St. 
Louis,  Mo.,  where  he  now  resides.  During  the  late 
war  Gen.  Parsons  rose  to  the  rank  of  Brigadier  General 
in  the  Quartermaster's  Department;  and  having  charge 
of  R.  R.  and  River  Transportation  in  the  army  of  the 
west,  he  did  most  valuable  service  and  performed  miracles 
of  celerity  in  the  movement  of  vast  bodies  of  troops  and 
of  supplies,  winning  an  enviable  reputation  for  energy 
and  ability.  He  has  a  fine  prairie  farm  of  3,000  acres  at 
Flora,  Illinois.  He  married  Miss  Sarah  G.  Edwards,  of 
St.  Louis,  in  1847,  f^^^  his  first  wife,  and  has  recently 
been  married  to  his  third  wife,  Miss  Elizabeth  Darrah,  of 
New  York.  He  has  two  sons  and  two  daughters.  His 
oldest  son  is  now  a  Junior  in  Yale  College. 


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■^Cale  Pelton,  Buckland,  Mass.  Took  his  A.  M.  in 
course.  For  several  years  was  a  teacher  in  Philadelphia, 
and  a  manufacturer  of  the  well-known  Pelton  Outline 
Map,  of  which"  he  was  inventor.  He  was  married  in  1842, 
and  died  a  few  years  since. 

^William  Perkins,  Grand  Gulph,  Miss.  Born  April 
26,  1 82 1.  Studied  law  and  took  LL.  B.  at  Cambridge. 
Has  been  District  Attorney  for  the  Parish  of  Tensas,  La., 
where  he  resided  for  a  time.  Was  on  board  the  steamer 
Arctic,  and  perished  with  her,  in  1854.  In  1846  married 
Miss  Murdock,  of  Mississippi,  and  had  two  children. 

John  Perkins,  Jr.,  Grand  Gulph,  Miss.  Born  July  i, 
1 8 19.  Studied  law  at  Cambridge,  and  took  the  degree  of 
LL.  B.  Practiced  law  in  New  Orleans,  in  company  with 
James  Smith.  His  health  failing,  he  sailed  for  Europe  in 
1848  ;  he  returned  in  1850,  his  health  re-established.  Was 
Representative  of  United  States  Congress  two  terms,  and 
has  been  Judge  of  the  Courts  in  Louisiana.  Residence 
was  at  Somerset,  Ashwood,  Tensas  Parish,  La.  At  the 
commencement  of  the  late  war  he  was  chairman  of  the 
Committee  on  Foreign  Relations  in  the  United  States 
House  of  Representatives.  He  was  for  a  time  Secretary 
of  the  Navy  under  the  Confederate  government,  and  at 
the  close  of  the  struggle  burned  up  his  valuable  mansion 
and  an  immense  amount  of  cotton  lest  it  should  fall  into 
the  hands  of  union  troops.  Married  Mrs.  Bailey,  a  w4dow, 
as  his  second  wife.  Miss  Potts,  who  was  his  first  wife, 
was  very  useful  among  the  poor  in  the  city  of  New  York, 
but  is  now  dead. 

Lavalette  Perrin,  Vernon,  Conn.  Born  May  15, 
1 8 16.  Studied  theology  at  East  Windsor  and  New  Haven. 
Licensed  to  preach  August  8th,  1843.  Settled  in  Goshen, 
Conn.,  December  13th,  1843.  Married  to  Miss  Ann  Eliza 
Comstock,  of  New  Haven,  June  4th,  1844.  Dismissed,  at 
his  own  request,  September  4th,  1857.  Installed  pastor  of 
First  Church  in  New  Britain,  Conn.,  February  3d,  1858. 
Was  recently  dismissed  from  his  pastorate  in  New  Britain, 


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and  has  been  spending-  some  months  in  European  travel. 
He  received  the  degree  of  D.  D.  from  Yale  College  in 
1869.  Has  four  children — Bernadotte,  Catherine,  Addison, 
and  William  A.  Perrin.  His  oldest  son  is  now  studying 
theology  in  the  Yale  Theological  Seminary. 

Frederick  A.  Pratt,  Deep  River,  Conn.  Born  1817. 
Studied  theology  in  East  Windsor,  Conn.  Was  a  min- 
ister of  the  Old  School  Presbyterian  Church,  in  the 
Domestic  Missionary  service,  residing  in  Dakota  County, 
Minn.,  having  charge  of  two  congregations.  His  present 
address  is  Sterling,  Blue  Earth  Co.,  Miss.,  where  he  is 
acting  pastor  of  a  Presbyterian  Church. 

^Henry  M.  Proctor,  Boston,  Mass.  Born  Nov.  29, 
1820.  Shipped  as  a  sailor  on  board  bark  General  Scott, 
bound  from  Boston  to  Sidney,  New  South  Wales.  When 
two  days  out  of  port,  on  the  22d  of  December,  1841,  he 
fell  overboard,  and  was  lost. 

Edward  E.  Rankin,  Newark,  N.  J.  Born  May  15, 
1820.  Took  his  A.  M.  in  course;  studied  Theology  in 
New  York,  and  from  October,  1843,  to  May,  1850,  was 
pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  in  Springfield, 
N.  J.  On  the  26th  of  May,  1850,  became  the  pastor  of 
the  Forty-Second  Street  Presbyterian  Church,  New  York 
City.  Visited  Europe  in  1846.  Left  New  York,  after 
fourteen  years  of  ministerial  labor  there,  and  went  to 
Newark,  N.  J.,  as  a  missionary,  where  he  helped  to  form  a 
church.  Served  in  the  Christian  Commission  in  the 
army  ;  then  removed  to  Fairfield,  Conn.,  where  he  has 
resided  four  years.  Has  received  the  degree  of  D.  D. 
In  October,  1847,  married  Miss  Emily  Watkinson,  of 
Hartford,  Conn.  Has  had  two  daughters  and  six  sons, — 
of  whom,  the  eldest,  Margaret,  died  in  April,  1849,  aged 
about  seven  years. 

^George  Richards,  New  London,  Conn.  Born  Nov. 
2,  1816.  Taught  school  a  year  or  two;  took  his  A.  M.  in 
course,   and  became  a  tutor  in   Yale  College.      Studied 


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theology  at  Andoverand  New  Haven,  and  in  1845  became 
associate  pastor  of  the  Central  Church,  Boston,  and  from 
185 1  to  1859,  ^^^^^  sole  pastor.  Spent  some  time,  after- 
wards, in  Europe.  On  his  return,  was  settled  as  pastor 
over  the  Congregational  Church  in  Litchfield,  Conn ; 
whence  he  removed  to  take  charge  of  the  ist  Congrega- 
tional Church  in  Bridgeport,  Conn.  Some  two  years 
before  his  death  he  became  afflicted  with  partial  loss  of 
sight,  accompanied  with  nervous  prostration  of  the  whole 
system.  During  these  years,  though  continuing  his  min- 
isterial labors,  he  was  a  constant  sufferer,  in  body  and 
brain,  until  released  by  a  peaceful  death,  October  20,  1870. 
He  was  a  man  of  refined  culture,  a  zealous  worker,  and  a 
preacher  of  no  ordinary  power,  carrying  out  in  mature 
years  the  brilliant  promise  of  his  college  days.  "  He 
went  to  his  too  early  grave  with  the  unbounded  affection 
and  confidence  of  all  who  knew  him,  and  has  left  behind 
him  a  name  endeared  and  enshrined  in  the  hearts  of  his 
man}^  friends."  He  sent  a  pleasant  letter  of  greeting  to 
his  classmates  at  their  last  meeting.  In  1846,  married 
Miss  Anna  M.  Woodruff,  of  Philadelphia,  and  has  left  a 
widow  and  five  children.  His  oldest  son  is  now  a  Junior 
in  Yale  College. 

^Charles  J.  Ruggles,  Newburgh,  N.  Y.  Born  Nov. 
5,  1820.  Studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at 
Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.  Took  his  A.  M.  in  1847.  He  con- 
tinued in  the  practice  of  his  profession  until  October, 
1848,  though  his  failing  health  had  compelled  him  to  spend 
two  winters  at  the  South  ;  from  which  time  he  gradually 
sank  under  a  pulmonary  attack,  until  the  25th  of  Septem- 
ber, 1849,  when  he  died,  at  home,  and  in  the  midst  of 
friends.  His  remains  are  interred  in  the  family  burying 
ground  at  Coldenham,  Orange  County,  N.  Y. 

Charles  S.  Shelton,  Huntington,  Conn.  Born 
August  28,  1819.  Took  his  A.  M.  in  course,  and  also 
M.  D.  Entered  on  the  practice  of  medicine,  but  gave  it 
up,  and  in  1848  went  as  a  missionary  of  the  American 
Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign  Missions,  to  Madura, 


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Southern  India.  In  1848  he  married  Miss  Hyde,  of 
Brooklyn,  and  has  one  child.  Resided  in  Springfield,  111., 
practicing-  medicine  ;  and  is  a  Homoepathic  physician  in 
Jersey  City.     He  was  in  the  army  service  for  a  time. 

L.  Denison  Shoemaker,  Wilkesbarre,  Penn.  Born 
Nov.  5,  1 8 19.  Is  a  lawyer  in  Wilkesbarre,  where  he  is 
highly  esteemed  as  a  lawyer  and  as  a  man.  Has  been  a 
member  of  the  Penn.  Senate  and  is  member  elect  of  the 
House  of  Representatives  of  the  42d  Congress  of  the 
United  States.  Was  married  in  1849,  ^^^  has  five 
children. 

*James  Smith,  Peterborough,  N.  H.  Born  Jan.  15, 
1 8 16.  He  instructed,  for  a  time,  in  the  family  of  Mr. 
Perkins,  of  Louisiana  ;  then  studied  law  and  received 
LL.  B.  at  Harvard.  In  1845  became  established  as  a  law- 
yer in  New  Orleans,  in  partnership  with  John  Perkins. 
His  health  soon  failed,  and  being  attacked  with  pulmonary 
consumption,  he  returned  to  his  native  place,  (Peter- 
borough, N.  H.,)  and  there  died,  on  the  31st  of  December, 
1846.  The  Lazv  Reporter  for  March,  1847,  contains  an  in- 
teresting sketch  of  his  life  and  character. 

J.  Few  Smith,  Philadelphia,  Penn.  Born  Jan.  7,  1816. 
Took  his  A.  M.  in  course;  studied  theology  at  Western 
Reserve  College,  where  he  was  for  some  time  a  Tutor. 
Was  settled  as  a  pastor  at  Valatie,  N.  Y.,  and  subsequently 
at  Winchester,  Va.,  from  which  place  he  removed  in  1848, 
to  become  Professor  of  Sacred  Rhetoric  in  Auburn  Theo- 
logical Seminar}^,  N.  Y.  Left  Auburn  in  185 1  for  Newark, 
N.  J.,  where  he  now  resides.  Pastor  of  Second  Presbyte- 
rian Church.  Was  married  in  1843  ^^'^cl  has  had  six  child- 
ren, four  now  living.  In  reply  to  the  letter  of  invitation 
to  the  last  class-meeting  our  valedictorian  writes :  "  May 
those  of  you  who  come  together  have  a  very  joyous  time 
in  the  remembrance  of  the  past  and  in  the  strengthening 
of  pleasant  bonds,  and  go  forth  in  the  fresh  hope,  mel- 
lowed and  radiant  with  light  from  above,  into  the  work 
and  blessedness  of  another  cycle." 


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■^George  W.  Steere,  Providence,  R.  I.  Born  June  14, 
1 8 14.  For  several  years  resided  in  Louisiana  ;  part  of  the 
time  as  instructor  in  the  family  of  Mr.  Perkins.  He  was 
in  delicate  health,  and  is  believed  to  have  died  in  1849,  ^t 
Pensacola,  Fla.  He  was  a  man  of.  great  simplicity  and 
sincerity  of  character,  and  ''a  mighty  hunter."  He  was 
not  married. 

Lev^is  Sterling,  Bayou  Sara,  La.  Born  March  5, 
1819.  Continued  to  reside  on  his  plantation  near  Bayou 
Sara.     Reported  to  be  dead.     Never  married. 

George  H.  Swift,  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.  Born  Feb- 
ruary 8,  1820.  Studied  law,  went  into  practice  in  Pough- 
keepsie ;  did  an  extensive  business ;  health  failed  ;  went 
to  South  Amenia,  N.  Y.,  and  purchased  a  large  farm,  and 
is  engaged  in  its  cultivation.  He  is  also  doing  consid- 
erable unsought  business  in  his  profession,  and  is  equally 
earnest  in  other  benevolent  and  Christian  labors.  Has 
been  married  twice  and  has  had  several  children,  but  one 
of  whom  survives. 

George  Terry,  Plymouth,  Conn.     Born  Jan.  22,  18 17. 

George  Thacher,  Hartford,  Conn.  Born  July  25, 
1 81 7.  Having  studied  theology  at  New  Haven,  he  was 
first  settled  as  a  pastor  at  Derby,  Conn. ;  removed  in  1848 
to  Nantucket,  w^here  he  remained  eighteen  months, 
whence  he  accepted  a  call  to  the  Allen  St.  Church,  New 
York  City.  Then  became  a  settled  pastor  in  Meriden, 
Conn.  Removed  from  Meriden  to  Keokuk,  Mo.,  where  he 
remained  six  years.  He  then  spent  five  months  in  Europe, 
and  on  his  return  he  has  pre?iched  at  Milwaukee,  New 
York  City,  and  Waterloo,  low^a.  Is  now  President  of 
Iowa  University,  Iowa  City.  He  married  Miss  Sarah 
M.  Smith,  who  died  July,  1850,  leaving  two  children,  one 
of  which  has  since  deceased.  In  185 1,  married  a  younger 
sister  of  his  first  wife.  He  has  lost  his  last  daughter,  an 
only  child. 


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Egbert  A.  Thompson,  Bethlem,  Conn.  Born  1814. 
Married  December,  1840,  to  Miss  Caroline  A.  Smith, 
daughter  of  Hon.  Nathan  Smith,  of  New  Haven.  Studied 
law  in  the  New  Haven  Law  School,  and  removed  to 
Quincy,  111.,  where  he  practiced  his  profession  till  1847, 
when  he  removed  to  Cincinnati,  and  there  engaged  in  an 
extensive  and  lucrative  practice.  He  has  since  moved 
across  the  river  into  Covington,  Ky.,  where  he  cultivates 
a  vineyard  and  manufactures  wine.  He  has  given  up  the 
practice  of  the  law.  Has  had  eight  children  ;  four  are 
now  living. 

William  H.  Tiffany,  Brooklyn,  Conn.  Born  18 19. 
Entered  into  business  in  New  York  City,  soon  after  grad- 
uating, where  he  remained  until  1849,  when  he  went  to 
San  Francisco,  California.  He  has  spent  fourteen  years 
in  California,  and  been  engaged  in  all  kinds  of  business 
speculations,  real  estate  operations  and  mining.  He  put 
gas-works  into  Honolulu.     He  is  unmarried. 

^George  C.  Waite,  Lyme,  Conn.  Born  August  13, 
1820.  Took  his  A.  M.  in  course;  studied  law  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  at  Troy,  N.  Y.,  where  he  remained  in 
practice  until  1849,  when,  in  consequence  of  ill  health,  he 
returned  to  the  residence  of  his  father  in  Lyme,  and  there, 
in  August  of  that  year,  he  died.     He  was  not  married. 

Elias  H.  Williams,  Ledyard,  Conn.  Born  July  23, 
1819.  Is  a  farmer  residing  at  Garnavilla,  Iowa,  and 
owns  large  quantities  of  land  there.  Was  Judge  of  the 
County  Court,  Clayton  County,  Iowa,  and  has  been 
recently  elected  Chief  Justice  of  the  State  of  Iowa.  He 
is  the  inventor  of  a  valuable  rail-road  excavator. 

'^Theodore  B.  Witmer,  Lancaster,  Penn.  Born  April 
26,  1818.  Studied  law  at  Cambridge,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  Philadelphia  bar  in  1843.  Soon  after  sailed  for 
Europe.  Returned  and  resided  in  Philadelphia  (although 
occasionally  re-visiting  Europe)  till  1856,  when  he  was 
lost  at  sea,  near  Malaga,  Spain,  while  traveling  along  the 
Mediterranean  coast. 
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William  Woodbridge,  Hartford,  Conn.  Born  Aug., 
1 8 19.  Studied  medicine  and  took  M.  D.  at  Yale.  Settled 
as  a  physician  at  Manchester,  Conn.,  but  is  now  residing 
in  Brooklyn,  Conn.  He  is  an  accomplished  musician, 
especially  in  playing  upon  the  organ.  Was  in  1869  a 
member  of  the  Connecticut  legislature.  Said  to  have 
written  a  book  entitled  ''  Ten  Years  among  the  Mail-bags." 
Is  married  and  has  two  children. 

^Edward  Wright,  Deerfield,.  Mass.  Born  May  i, 
181 5.  Studied  theology,  and  since  his  ordination  was  the 
pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  at  West  Haven, 
Conn.,  and  also  at  the  head  of  a  flourishing  Female  Semi- 
nary, where  he  died  in  1852,  leaving  a  wife  and  children. 


The  following  members  of  the   Class  left  it  during  Senior 

Year. 

W.  WOODBRIDGE  HUDSON,  Hartford,  Conn.  Born 
1820.  Studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New 
York  City,  where  he  resided  as  a  practicing  lawyer.  He 
died  some  years  since. 

N.  Smith,  Augusta,  N,  Y.     Is  a  lawyer  in  Selma,  Ala. 


The  following  left  the  Class  during  Junior  Year. 

James  H.  Collier,  Binghamton,  N.  Y.  Died  at 
Panama,  on  his  return  from  San  Francisco,  where  he  had 
held  a  post  in  the  Custom  House,  in  1849  o^  1850. 

Frederick  Morrill,  Brentwood,  N.  H. 

John  Sterns  Sparhawk,  Warehouse  Point,  Conn. 
Died  at  New  Haven  in  1839. 


The  following  left  the  Class  during  Sophomore  Year. 

LuciEN  Birdseye,  Pompey,  N.  Y. 

*John  Tod  Breck,  Richmond,  Ky.     Died  Feb.,  1839. 

Joshua  R.  Brown,  Stonington. 

JosiAH  W.  Brown,  Acton,  Mass. 

Peter  Hewins  Burget,  Geneva,  N.  Y. 

Warren  S.  Childs,  Henniker,  N.  H. 

Joseph  S.  Claghorn,  Savannah,  Ga. 

George  W.  Clark,  New  York  City.  Entered  the 
United  States  Navy.  Resigned  a  few  years  since,  and  is 
now  in  business  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Stillman  a.  Clemons,  Granby,  Conn. 


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JosiAH  Curtis,  Wethersfield,  Conn.  Born  April  30, 
1 8 16.  Received  his  A.  M.  in  i860,  and  M.  D.  at  Jefferson 
Medical  College  in  1843.  I"  i^44  settled  in  the  practice 
of  medicine  in  Lowell,  Mass.  In  1849  removed  to  Boston, 
where  he  continued  in  the  practice  of  his  profession,  until 
1 861  when  he  entered  the  United  States  Volunteer  Ser- 
vice, commissioned  as  Brigade  Surgeon.  He  remained  in 
the  army  till  1865,  having  attained  the  rank  of  Colonel 
of  Cavalry,  the  highest  rank  in  the  Volunteer  Medical 
Department  of  the  Army.  Was  brevetted  "  for  faithful 
and  meritorious  service  "  but  never  accepted  the  brevet. 
Since  the  war  he  has  resided  at  Knoxville,  Tenn.  His 
exposure  and  labors  during  the  war  so  impaired  his 
health  that  he  has  not  been  able  to  resume  his  profession. 
During  the  past  few  years  he  has  devoted  much  time  to 
the  study  of  Natural  History.  Is  a  permanent  and  hon- 
orary member  of  many  Medical  and  Scientific  Asso- 
ciations. 

Flavel  a.  Dickinson,  Preston,  N.  Y. 

John  C.  Downer,  Norwich,  Conn. 

Charles  E.  Everitt,  Smithville,  N.  C. 

Joseph  W.  Fitch,  Charleston,  S.  C. 

Samuel  B.  Garrett,  Nash  Co.,  N.  C. 

James  P.  Holcombe,  Lynchburg,  Va.  Is  the  Author 
and  Editor  of  several  legal  works.  Is  a  lawyer  of  distinc- 
tion in  Virginia.  Was  one  of  the  Confederate  Peace 
Commissioners  during  the  war. 

James  E.  Houston,  Savannah,  Ga. 

James  M.  Linsley,  Prospect,  Conn. 

Samuel  B.  Mills,  Chester,  Conn. 

'^-Charles  W.  Peck,  Attica,  N.  Y.  Died  in  the  Island 
of  Cuba. 

Charles  N.  Seymour.  Left  the  Class  during  Sopho- 
more year,  on  account  of  ill  health,  and  afterwards  grad- 
uated at  Trinity  College,  Hartford.  Studied  theology  at 
New  Haven,  and  is  now  a  settled  minister  at  Brooklyn, 
Conn.      Married    and    has    had    ten    children,    four    now 


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Thomas  H.  Skinner,  New  York  City.  Is  a  Clergy- 
man of  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church,  settled  at  Fort 
Wayne,  Ind. 

Charles  Smith,  Hudson,  N.  Y. 

John  C.  Sterling,  Watertown,  N.  Y. 

John  W.  Stoughton,  East  Windsor,  Conn. 

Roderick  Terry,  a  merchant,  resident  in  Hartford, 
Conn. 

^Ebenezer  S.  Underwood,  Woodstock,  Conn.  Died 
in  1837. 

Simeon  Waters,  Providence,  R.  I. 

W.  Fred.  Williams,  Tonawanda,  N.  Y.  Was  for 
many  years  a  missionary  of  the  A.  B.  C.  F.  M.  in  Mardin, 
Eastern  Turkey,  and  has  been  four  times  married. 

Joseph  W.  Woolfork,  Columbus,  Ga.  Graduated  at 
Princeton,  N.  J. 


The  following  left  the  Class  during  Freshman  Year. 

John  W.  Armstrong,  Toronto,  U.  C. 

^Samuel  S.  Bates,  Warren,  Conn.  Died  in  New 
York,  1839. 

Francis  H.  Brown,  Columbia,  Conn. 

Henry  Gunn  Buckingham,  New  Milford,  Conn. 

Samuel  P.  Caldwell,  Columbia,  Tenn. 

Edward  W.  Champlin,  Saybrook,  Conn.  Graduated 
at  Union  College. 

Leonoreon  De  la  Motta  D'Lyon,  Savannah,  Ga. 

John  Dowse,  Burke  Co.,  Ga. 

DiviE  B.  DuFFiELD,  Philadelphia,  Pa.  Resides  in 
Detroit,  Mich.     Lawyer. 

■^Samuel  Hayes  Elliot,  Brattleboro,  Vt.,  1809.  After 
remaining  a  year  at  Yale  entered  Union  College,  N.  Y., 
where  he  graduated.  Studied  theology  at  Yale  Seminary 
and  was  settled  in  the  ministry  at  Woodbridge,  Conn.,  in 


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1840.  His  failing  health  compelled  him  to  leave  the  min- 
istry in  1855,  when  he  became  a  business  man  in  New 
Haven,  where  he  continued  to  reside  until  his  death, 
Sept.  1 1,  1869.  He  was  an  attractive  and  earnest  preacher, 
and  a  guileless  and  unselfish  man.  He  acquired  quite  a 
reputation  as  an  author.  Some  of  his  books  are  entitled, 
"  Rolling  Ridge,"  "  The  Parish  Side,"  '*  Dreams  and 
Realities."  In  1844  he  married  Miss  M.  F.  Harvey  of 
Somerville,  N.  J.,  and  leaves  a  widow  and  four  children. 

'^William  J.  Forbes,  New  Haven,  Conn.  Merchant 
in  New  York  City.     Died  several  years  since. 

William  Henry  Hart,  Trinidad,  W.  I. 

Horace  G.  Hitchcock,  Cheshire,  Conn. 

Elijah  B.  Huntington,  Bozrah,  Conn.  A  settled 
minister  in  Stamford,  Conn.  Author  of  ''  History  of 
Stamford  "  and  "  The  Huntington  Family." 

^William  Kennedy,  Darlington,  S.  C.  Lost  in  the 
Steamer  Home,  between  New  York  and  Charleston,  Oct. 
9th,  1837. 

John  Kilbourn,  Salisbury,  Conn.  Desires  to  have  his 
name  placed  on  the  list  of  the  Class  of  1840,  as  the  class 
of  his  "first  love."  He  received  the  degree  of  A.  M. 
from  Yale  College  in  1854.  He  spent  twenty  years  in 
teaching.     Is  now  Postmaster  in  Augusta,  N.  Y. 

John  W.  Lewis,  Charleston,  S.  C. 

Martin  Martins,  St.  Eustatius,  W.  L 

^Daniel  G.  Mason,  Boston,  Mass.  Was  in  business  in 
New  York  City,  one  of  the  firm  of  Mason  Bros.,  Music 
Publishers.     Died  two  or  three  years  since  in  Germany. 

R.  F.  Morris,  East  Haven,  Conn. 

Joseph  Osgood  Mussey,  Hanover,  N.  H.  For  several 
years  was  a  Reporter  and  letter  writer  at  Washington. 

*JOHN  H.  Olmstead,  New  Haven,  Conn.  Graduated 
in  1845,  ^^^  died  the  following  year. 

Edward  Potter,  Plymouth,  Conn. 

William  H.  Potter,  Colchester,  Conn. 

Chauncey  D.  Rice,  Amherst,  Mass. 


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Thomas  H.  Rodman,  New  York  City. 

Reuben  C.  Shorter,  Columbus,  Ga. 

Benjamin  A.  .Spaulding,  Billerica,  Mass. 

Samuel  W.  Stebbins,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Lewis  E.  Sykes,  Brattleboro,  Vt. 

Joseph  Joslyn  Thompson,  New  Britain,  Mass.  Has 
been  a  schoolmaster  and  lecturer  on  Phrenology  and 
various  other  subjects. 

James  L.  Trask,  Woodville,  Miss. 

BuEL  M.  Williams,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Francke  Williams,  Hartford,  Conn. 


